Your results rely to a big extent on how many file were on the disk in the first place. If it was a systemn disk, with thousands of files, then there is a high chance that the required MFT entry will not have been overwritten by a quick format.

If the disk was an external drive with very few files, then a quick format could have lost all your data run info.

I seem to remember like it is not a "fixed" number, but proportional to the size of the volume, and consequently of the "initial" $MFT, that may be additionally different on different Windows OS's.
As a quick test in a 128 Mb virtual disk I generated 1000 (one thousand) "random" files, then, after quick formatting, I was able to find the $MFT entries for all files but the first 5 (five). This is XP SP2.

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I used to use tools by www.diskinternals.com, they were OK for the task (extracting files from a quick-formatted disk). In this case, I'd try DiskInternals Partition Recovery. It includes algorithms that can carve data (they call it "PowerSearch" if I'm not mistaken) if the file system is empty or unavailable. AFAIK, it supports mounted volumes such as TrueCrypt; just make sure to engage the "partition scan" mode as opposed to recovering a "physical disk" (terms may be different, but you get the idea). Not the cheapest tool though.

Also, I had *very* limited success with some freeware tools, as they normally don't look beyond the file system itself. No file system - no recovery.
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